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▪ I. bonk, v.|bɒŋk|
[Echoic; cf. bang v., bump v.1, conk v.1, etc.]
1. colloq.
a. trans. To hit (a solid surface or bony part of the body) resoundingly with or against something hard and unyielding. (See also quot. 1931.)
1931Brophy & Partridge Songs & Slang 1914-18 (ed. 3) 286 To bonk, to shell; generally in the passive. 1937N. Hunter Professor Branestawm's Treasure Hunt i. 13 The carrier men..bonked and rattled and squerked the package through the almost too small doorway and set it down with a thump. 1938Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Add. 981/2 Bonk,..to hit (v.t.) resoundingly: mostly Public Schools': from 1919. 1963Observer 10 Nov. 1/1 Each time a golfer wearing it raises his head while making a shot the pendulum bonks him in the face. 1975Verbatim Sept. 1/2 Similar is bonk (bang + conk) in ‘A door nearly bonked her in the face’. 1984N.Y. Times 26 Feb. 55/1 This snake came out. My grandfather pulled this wrench out of the plower and he bonked it on the head.
b. intr. To bang or bump; to make an abrupt thudding noise (see bonk n. 1).
1960K. Amis Take Girl like You iv. 49 The heavy door creaked and bonked shut. 1967Time 19 May 109/1 Skelton got a concussion bonking into a ‘break-away’ door. 1986Washington Post 25 May h2/5 The dreaded saber-toothed tiger..came prowling by, bonking into things.
2. trans. and intr. To have sexual intercourse (with). slang.
1975Foul Mar. 9/4 (caption) Rita is currently being bonked by the entire Aston Villains defence! 1984McConville & Shearlaw Slanguage of Sex 34/2 ‘They're not even bonking any more.’.. Entirely cross-sexual, with women being just as likely to say they bonk as are men. 1985Venue 26 Apr. 29 He goes home early, only to find his wife merrily bonking with another bloke. 1986Look Now Oct. 88/2 It was rather a surprise..to learn that he had booked us on a singles holiday with the express intention of bonking his way back to happiness. 1986Daily Tel. 29 Oct. 14/8 Fiona..has become so frustrated that she has been bonking the chairman of the neighbouring constituency's Conservative association. 1987Sun 21 Feb. 20/6 Fans who were at the concert..were still convinced that Carol had ‘bonked’ the virgin — and one of the band. Ibid. 20/7 It certainly looked like she and the boy were bonking.
Hence ˈbonking vbl. n., (a) = bonk n. 1; (b) slang, sexual intercourse.
1958New Scientist 20 Nov. 1324/3 A simple, mass-produced car..must be expected to give up the ghost to a procession of rattlings and bonkings soon after it has travelled 50,000 miles. 1985Venue 26 Apr. 30 Some midnight assignations, a bit of bonking and a good deal of philosophising are obviously par for the course. 1986Guardian 11 Nov. 26/3 A witty, blurred focus shot of a beaten-up 2cv in a romantic landscape, rocking with the steamy bonking of its occupants.
▪ II. bonk, n.|bɒŋk|
[Echoic: see the vb.]
1. An abrupt, heavy sound, as when a solid object strikes a hard surface or bony part of the body; a bump or blow. Also as int. colloq.
1938N. Hunter Larky Legends iv. 47 The third [arrow] struck the dummy dragon bonk right on the boot-box. 1941Dandy Comic 20 Sept. 15/2 (in figure) Bonk{ddd}Yow! What's hit me? 1948[see bonkers]. 1957Manvell & Huntley Film Music iii. 168 Sketches of cogs, gears, belt-drives, looms and engines..are shown to an orchestration of clangs, clicks, whirrs and ‘bonks’. 1977Washington Post 4 June c2/1 One girl guarded her resonating bells from bypassers who thought they might as well go bonk-bonk as they strolled past. 1985Times 15 Jan. 13/5 No matter what the axle weight, three axles give rise to six bonks instead of four and it is the bonks and not the axle weight that do the damage to our historic houses. 1986Guardian 27 Dec. 30/7 This geezer come at me — 38 stone tub of lard in a loincloth — and, bonk! It's all over.
2. Sport. (A sudden attack of) fatigue or light-headedness sometimes experienced by racing cyclists and other athletes (see quot. 1983). slang.
1952Daily Mail 14 Apr. 2/8 He hoped to ward off that sinking feeling which comes after prolonged effort and which athletes call ‘bonk’. 1978Watson & Gray Penguin Bk. Bicycle vi. 255 The British call this attack of nauseous weakness the ‘Bonk’. 1983Times 1 July 12/2 ‘You've got to watch out for the bonk.’.. ‘The bonk’ is a sudden collapse of the blood sugar level, instantly bringing on delirium and delusion.
3. An act of sexual intercourse. slang.
1984McConville & Shearlaw Slanguage of Sex 34/2 Bonk, sexual intercourse. As in ‘Did you have a good bonk last night?’ 1986Private Eye 13 June 8/1 Competition to guess the meaning of the letters ‘GB’{ddd}Suggestions..include ‘Great Bonk’, ‘Ginger Bush’, ‘Geoff Barnard’ and ‘Georgie Best’. 1986Today 22 Dec. 11/4 Mistakes are referred to as boobs — which seems fair enough. What is a little surprising is that even the programme's adult representatives claim they don't quite know what a bonk might be.
4. Special Comb.: bonk bag Cycling slang, a small bag for carrying light food that can be nibbled while racing so as to prevent ‘the bonk’ (sense 2 above).
1978Watson & Gray Penguin Bk. Bicycle ii. 65 Musettes or bonk-bags..avoid the problems caused by heavier paraphernalia. 1983Times 1 July 12/2 The cyclists may use up to 6,000 calories during a race; to stave off ‘the bonk’ they nibble constantly from small snacks in the ‘bonk-bags’ they all wear.
▪ III. bonk(e
obs. form of bank n.1 |